[tor-talk] socks connect

[Perforin]

HI That's because the DNS requests are not made through Tor, so Pidgin
can't resolv the hidden service onion URL. You need Polipo or Privoxy
running, configure it with tunneling everything through Tor (don't
forget the DNS requests!!!). Lastly you need to configure pidgin to use
the local privoxy/polipo port as a socks5 proxy.


Greetings

On 2014-09-10 13:05, Martin S wrote:
> I've been trying to connect to a hidden IRC server using Pidgin and irssi.
> I can connect using
>
> torify irssi
> or
> torify pidgin
>
> then connecting to the server, but setting up a direct connection
> through socks5 and proxy settings fails with the error message
> "connection refused".
> The torrc on the server says
>
> SocksPort 9050
> SocksPolicy accept *
>
> but still refuses connections it seems.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin S